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# Computer Architecture Resources

## Essential Books
1. "Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (RISC-V Edition)"
   - Authors: David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy
   - Link: https://www.elsevier.com/books/computer-organization-and-design-risc-v-edition/patterson/978-0-12-820331-6

2. "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (6th Edition)"
   - Authors: John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson
   - Link: https://www.elsevier.com/books/computer-architecture/hennessy/978-0-12-811905-1

3. "Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM Edition"
   - Authors: Sarah Harris, David Harris
   - Link: https://www.elsevier.com/books/digital-design-and-computer-architecture/harris/978-0-12-800056-4

4. "Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors"
   - Authors: John Paul Shen, Mikko H. Lipasti
   - Link: https://www.waveland.com/browse.php?t=392

5. "Structured Computer Organization (6th Edition)"
   - Author: Andrew S. Tanenbaum
   - Link: https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/structured-computer-organization/P200000003427

6. "Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach"
   - Authors: David Culler, Jaswinder Pal Singh
   - Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/286076

7. "Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk"
   - Authors: Bruce Jacob, Spencer Ng, David Wang
   - Link: https://www.elsevier.com/books/memory-systems/jacob/978-0-12-379751-3

8. "The RISC-V Reader: An Open Architecture Atlas"
   - Authors: David Patterson, Andrew Waterman
   - Link: https://www.riscvbook.com/

9. "Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction"
   - Author: Jon Stokes
   - Link: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/inside-the-machine/9781593271046/

10. "Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution"
    - Authors: Gerrit A. Blaauw, Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
    - Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/521847

## Research Papers

1. "The Case for RISC" (1985)
   - Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/MC.1985.1662901

2. "The Evolution of RISC Technology at IBM"
   - Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5387628

3. "A Survey of Processor Architecture for AI and ML"
   - Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9099537

4. "The Microarchitecture of Intel, AMD, and VIA CPUs"
   - Link: https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf

5. "BOOM: Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine"
   - Link: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-167.html

6. "Limits of Instruction-Level Parallelism"
   - Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/106972.106991

7. "The Case for Quantum Computing"
   - Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3408039

8. "A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence"
   - Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.2200/S00962ED2V01Y201910CAC049

9. "Branch Prediction: Methods and Challenges"
   - Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8445839

10. "Deep Learning Processing: Recent Trends"
    - Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9199918

11. "The Evolution of ARM Architecture"
    - Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8534545

12. "RISC-V: An Open Standard for SoCs"
    - Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3069384.3069392

13. "Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution"
    - Link: https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf

14. "Vector Processing in Modern Computer Architecture"
    - Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9312501

15. "Quantum Computing: State of the Art and Challenges"
    - Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3310273

## Online Resources and Tools

1. gem5 Simulator
   - Link: https://www.gem5.org/
   - Purpose: Full system simulation

2. MARS MIPS Simulator
   - Link: http://courses.missouristate.edu/kenvollmar/mars/
   - Purpose: MIPS assembly simulation

3. Logisim Evolution
   - Link: https://github.com/logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution
   - Purpose: Digital logic design

4. RISC-V Toolchain
   - Link: https://github.com/riscv-collab/riscv-gnu-toolchain
   - Purpose: RISC-V development

5. Intel® Architecture Code Analyzer
   - Link: https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/intel-architecture-code-analyzer.html
   - Purpose: Code optimization

6. SimpleScalar
   - Link: http://www.simplescalar.com/
   - Purpose: Processor simulation

7. Verilator
   - Link: https://www.veripool.org/verilator/
   - Purpose: Verilog simulation

8. QEMU
   - Link: https://www.qemu.org/
   - Purpose: Hardware emulation

9. Build an 8-bit computer from scratch
   - Link: https://eater.net/8bit/pc
   - Purpose: Learning Computer Architecture

## Specialized Topics

1. Quantum Computing Architecture
   - Resource: IBM Quantum Experience
   - Link: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/

2. Neuromorphic Computing
   - Resource: Intel's Neuromorphic Research Community
   - Link: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/neuromorphic-computing.html

3. In-Memory Computing
   - Resource: Stanford In-Memory Computing
   - Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03775

4. Hardware Security
   - Resource: MIT Hardware Security Course
   - Link: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-858-computer-systems-security-fall-2014/

5. Energy-Efficient Computing
   - Resource: Berkeley ASPIRE
   - Link: https://aspire.eecs.berkeley.edu/

6. Machine Learning Hardware
   - Resource: MLSys Conference
   - Link: https://mlsys.org/

## Conference Proceedings and Journals

1. ISCA (International Symposium on Computer Architecture)
   - Link: https://iscaconf.org/
   - Impact Factor: 4.6

2. MICRO (International Symposium on Microarchitecture)
   - Link: https://www.microarch.org/
   - Impact Factor: 3.8

3. IEEE Transactions on Computers
   - Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=12
   - Impact Factor: 3.1

4. ACM TOCS (Transactions on Computer Systems)
   - Link: https://dl.acm.org/journal/tocs
   - Impact Factor: 2.9

5. Journal of Systems Architecture
   - Link: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture
   - Impact Factor: 3.2

## Online Communities and Forums

1. Computer Architecture Stack Exchange
   - Link: https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/computer-architecture
   - Focus: Q&A

2. Reddit r/ComputerEngineering
   - Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/ComputerEngineering/
   - Focus: Discussion

3. IEEE Computer Society
   - Link: https://www.computer.org/
   - Focus: Professional Organization

4. ACM SIGARCH
   - Link: https://www.sigarch.org/
   - Focus: Special Interest Group

5. RISC-V Forums
   - Link: https://groups.google.com/a/groups.riscv.org/g/sw-dev
   - Focus: RISC-V Development

6. OpenCores Community
   - Link: https://opencores.org/
   - Focus: Open Source Hardware